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Date:	Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:10:31 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: ibm thinkpad A22p

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Hi Butch,

I'm typing this to you on an A21m -- my only working system at the moment, following some serious computer problems. I could be wrong, but I'm thinking that the A21 and A22 series were fairly similar, design-wise. I'm running eCS 2.0 RC4 and W2K - SP4 on this one. No major problems, apparently, other than that I had the original transformer brick go bad on me, so I bought a replacement part on eBay. Battery life is not real good, in today's terms, and the single USB port is a bit of a limitation, though not critical. You can always connect a hub. Mine is supposed to support a mini-PCI card, so I could add the IBM 2200 BG wireless card (for example), but this would involve some surgery and removing the built-in modem, in order to make room for it, and this I have so far chosen not to do. I've got a wireless option -- on the Dark Side -- via a wireless USB Nic. The one I'm using now has an Atheros chipset, but my understanding is that Genmac (even the Atheros
sub-strain of it) won't cover this for eCS.

The TPs of this older generation are still a pretty decent set of design tradeoffs, in my opinion. I don't need something more high-powered at the moment, like the feature set you get from a 2 or 3 spindle laptop, and as long as I can run eCS and W2K without major compromises I'm happy. For sure, the weight of these is more than many of today's models, but the only previous laptop I've had weighed in at 17 lbs. and had no HDD or color screen, so my perspective on this may be a bit different than most.

The key with any of these will always be getting a unit that is in very good shape.

HTH.

Jordan

eyeleica@cox.net wrote: There is an IBM Thinkpad A22P for sale on Craigslist for really cheap.
I've talked to the seller on the phone and he reassured me that the laptop
is in mint condition.
Has anyone had experience with the A22P?
It is 1 gHz power, 32 mg hd, but no wireless card.

Any experiences with eCS, linux, os/2 or any other operating system.

Butch

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eyeleica@cox.net
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Butch,

I'm typing this to you on an A21m -- my only working system at the moment, following some serious computer problems.  I could be wrong, but I'm thinking that the A21 and A22 series were fairly similar, design-wise.  I'm running eCS 2.0 RC4 and W2K - SP4 on this one.  No major problems, apparently, other than that I had the original transformer brick go bad on me, so I bought a replacement part on eBay.  Battery life is not real good, in today's terms, and the single USB port is a bit of a limitation, though not critical.  You can always connect a hub.  Mine is supposed to support a mini-PCI card, so I could add the IBM 2200 BG wireless card (for example), but this would involve some surgery and removing the built-in modem, in order to make room for it, and this I have so far chosen not to do.  I've got a wireless option -- on the Dark Side -- via a wireless USB Nic.  The one I'm using now has an Atheros chipset, but my understanding is that Genmac (even the Atheros sub-strain of it) won't cover this for eCS. 

The TPs of this older generation are still a pretty decent set of design tradeoffs, in my opinion.  I don't need something more high-powered at the moment, like the feature set you get from a 2 or 3 spindle laptop, and as long as I can run eCS and W2K without major compromises I'm happy.  For sure, the weight of these is more than many of today's models, but the only previous laptop I've had weighed in at 17 lbs. and had no HDD or color screen, so my perspective on this may be a bit different than most.

The key with any of these will always be getting a unit that is in very good shape. 

HTH.

  Jordan


eyeleica@cox.net wrote:

There is an IBM Thinkpad A22P for sale on Craigslist for really cheap.
I've talked to the seller on the phone and he reassured me that the laptop
is in mint condition.
Has anyone had experience with the A22P?
It is 1 gHz power, 32 mg hd, but no wireless card.

Any experiences with eCS, linux, os/2 or any other operating system.

Butch

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eyeleica@cox.net
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